Somerset meaning

sŭm'ər-sĕt'
To perform a somersault.
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County in SW England, on Bristol Channel: 1,333 sq mi (3,452 sq km)
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Archaic spelling of somersault.
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A maritime county in the west of England bordered by Gloucestershire, Bristol, Wiltshire, Dorset, Devon, the Severn estuary and the Bristol channel.
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Origin of somerset

  • Alteration of somersault
    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Somerset Sentence Examples

  • Dixon's Histories; Pollard's Cranmer and England under Somerset; other authorities cited in Dict.

  • He was ordained deacon in 1778 on the title of the curacies of Shepton Beauchamp and Sparkford, Somerset; and took priest's orders in 1780.

  • SAMUEL HOOD HOOD, VISCOUNT (1724-1816), British admiral, was the son of Samuel Hood, vicar of Butleigh in Somerset, and prebendary of Wells.

  • The fall of Somerset in the following month raised Bonner's hopes, and he appealed from Cranmer to the council.

  • It originally occupied rooms in Crane Court, City, and was moved in 1780 to Somerset House, where others of the societies named were also located.

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